[xraymd]

New M2 and I’m having an issue with CarPlay navigation.

While the onboard navigation is fine, when I use Apple Maps or Waze, I am having an intermittent error where my location is off a half mile or so. Waze freaks out and starts placing me on random side streets while I’m really on the freeway.

When I look at my car’s position on the MyBMW app, it can be off 100 feet or 1/2 mile.

The error only happens in some areas but not others and seems repeatable.

I figure there is a software issue. The car has accurate positioning on its internal map but is sending incorrect info to my phone.

[DomMuc]

looks more like an gps error fro, your cellphone..

turn off bluetooth and operate waze/Apple Maps on your iPhone and check if location is correct while driving ..

.if correct.. try to restart the Phone - clear the car/ phone from bluetooth list and reconect them

if still not correct check your settings for location at the phone

[86zccrx]

Unfortunately this seems to be a fairly common issue with iDrive 8 and carplay navigation apps. There are a lot of threads on the other BMW forums reporting similar issues.

[xraymd]

Thanks for the info.

After turning off wifi and Bluetooth, the phone corrects and position is accurate. When I reconnect to CarPlay, position is off again.

Tried restarting iPhone and deleting/reconnecting to car but same problem.

[xraymd]

Looks like I’ll only have to wait a month. Sounds like the problem has been around for almost a year.

[FunnyUsername]

Pretty annoying issue. You can hold down the volume button to reboot iDrive and it'll fix the location problem until the next time you get it

[pdx_m3r]

This happened to me yesterday. I was on the interstate, but both Waze and Google maps had me on a side road and kept trying to recalibrate my directions. I restarted both apps, restarted my phone and the issue still persisted.

Please report back if any fix has been applied to fix this issue. thanks!

[LivingInSalt]

There is supposedly an OTA update that’s finally fixed this

[Rx-7ames]

I have a 2023 330i client who just told me he has this problem. I should pay more attention to the forums. First I heard of it.

[xraymd]

It’s intermittent but happened again this morning driving to work. Supposedly the OTA update is rolling out but I haven’t received it yet.

[LivingInSalt]

Got notification of the OTA update on the way to work today. (G42 here but assume it's on the way for everybody soon)

[AndyinHou]

I haven’t received my update yet

[rangerfan94]

Is there a fix for this yet? It’s an incredibly annoying bug.

[JustinHEMI]

I agree this is another gripe.

[xraymd]

I just dropped off my M2 for the 1200 mile service this morning.

I haven’t received the OTA update yet so I asked if they would do it at the dealership.

The advisor seemed sceptical but “would take a look”.

[Cwatt79]

This issue is fixed with the latest OTA update.

[xraymd]

No luck.

“There’s no update available for your vehicle “

The new update started rolling out the first part of May.

[rangerfan94]

No update for my car. April 13 build date. Hard reset of the iDrive does nothing to fix it. This is incredibly disappointing, and quite annoying. As if I needed another reason not to like iDrive 8.

[GenXG87]

No update for me. No idea on build date, but have had it since early April. I believe it shows 11/22 version or something close.

The GPS issue is intermittent. No rhyme or reason. Rebooting phone and iDrive don't always fix the issue.

[vntperformance]

Just bought my 23 M240iDrive on Monday & I have this exact issue when using waze - in service date is 7/31/23.

[ToneM2]

Do we know if this was resolved yet?

[xraymd]

Sounds like the non-M 2 series cars have received an update that fixes the issue. I’m still on my as delivered 11/2022.44 version of iDrive in the M2 and I still have the issue.

It’s very frustrating.